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You're making me consider getting that Grinch game now.

I need to mod that Home Alone game and use the Marv electrocution scream as every single sound effect.

I think Christmas NIGHTS is the best christmas-themed game. But I want to try some of the ones of this list! Great video!

If I were to guess, I don't think the enemy is Bigfoot. A similar legendary monster is the Yeti, also known as the Abominable Snow Man. Looks like you're using the candy cane to transform an Abominable Snowman into... A regular snowman lol

I really like when you make this kind of video. Good work, St1ka.👍

Ah Christmas, the true season of horror

I like how coffee makes Santa run faster and beat the sh*t out of stuff in Daze before Christmas

Do you think Kevin, with prep time, could beat a bloodlusted Grinch?

"you do get to mow down the grinch with a magical candy cane, so it's not all bad" i love your comments in this ahahha

27:19 Ironically there is a witch called Befana that plays Santa's role in Italian folklore. There''s a few more Christmas games I can think of: "Deer Napped" by Nic-Ty Entertainment, "Santa's Secret Valley" by AHA! Software Inc., "Xmas Lemmings" by DMA Design Limited, "SkyRoads: Xmas Special" by Bluemoon Interactive, and"The Grinch" by Artificial Mind & Movement.

Only game i misses is the actual Amiga version of Lethal Weapon, that is a decent game in my book. And it has great music! Love your videos!

This is so delightful. Filled my festive meter right up 🎄🎅🏻🤘🏻

I played The Grinch on the Gameboy Color when I was younger. Making a stealth Grinch game was a genius idea. The game switches up its playstyle nicely with Max's levels and some car levels thrown in. Amazing game. I'm glad you gave it some recognition.

Nice video! Have you played any of the many Christmas homebrew games? RetroUSB makes an 8-bit Xmas game every year (since 2008), plus two 16-bit Xmas games for the Super Nintendo (2011 & 2012), then there’s the ASM Christmas music carts from 2012 & 2016, and Nekojita’s MegaXmas ‘89 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

Daze before Christmas seems MILES better than Santa Claus Saves the Earth, tbh.

I was kinda hoping to see some of the other DOS shareware games, or "freeware" Christmas demo versions, like Jazz Jackrabbit or Lemmings.

Hey st1ka, a hug from brazil and merry christmass, love your videos!

Parasite Eve is my favorite Christmas game 😛 Also Die Hard on MS-Dos reminds me of that unreleased Akira game that a beta was found for a few years ago. Tetsuo had some hospital sections that looked like that.

If you wanna potentially stretch the definition of Christmas game a lil', Power Blade 2 for NES is set on Christmas Eve and both starts and ends with a rendition of Silent Night. I need to play that one myself, it looks and sounds spectacular ngl

You want to hear about a Christmas being ruined by video games? One year, to my excitement, I got two NES games- and based on my two favorite movies!! I got LJNs classics, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Back to the Future”.

I actually owned Home Alone for the SNES as a kid. The basement music coupled with the grey brick background made me half expect to see Sub-Zero and Kano fighting down there.

Great video! I really like Daze Before Christmas and James Pond II and usually play them around Christmas. Sure, the games are rather mediocre, but they have enough Christmas feel to them to make them worth playable and an enjoyable experience nontheless. Batman Returns was actually composed by Yuzo's brother-in-arms Motohiro Kawashima, though Yuzo Koshiro is credited for "sound management".

I got to say I really enjoy Home Alone on the Genesis. It has some great ideas and is 9ne of my favorite Genesis Hidden Gems/Underrated games. It is the first game I remember playing with a crafting system. I also love how every house has a different theme and that items are random. Here's some tips. At the start the wet bandits drive around scouting the houses to rob, this is always random. You can take this time to spy on them to know what houses they will hit and to also loot. You want to try to loot and trap the houses as quick as you can. You can even loot houses while they are in a house being slowed down by your traps. Some weapons are really powerful but the items required to make them are a bit more rare, hence you want to loot as fast as you can. It's best to shoot them and then lure them into your traps. There's definitely a right way to play it. I really enjoyed it because every game is different though the gameplay loop boils down to the same thing.

It's such a weird idea to make a game christmas video game though I could see how some game companies would like the idea since they can use a recognizable character like Santa Claus and use public domain christmas music saving money that would otherwise be spent on a character designer and composer.

NES Die Hard is a top 25 nes game. It even has multiple endings depending on your time based choices. If you get the timing perfect you cans actually jump off the roof.

So the teacher assistant in my school talked to me about his "Mario Christmas game idea" where you played as Mario trying to find Santa but the game has multiple endings each one making a different character Santa. One ending had Bowser as Santa, another had Princess Peach as Santa, another had Toad as Santa.

I feel bad for anyone who was tricked into getting this game for Christmas or anyone who thought these were great games. I love Christmas games and Christmas themed stages or levels in games. Cool video. ^_^

Santa Claus Saves the Earth for GBA is HILARIOUS and worth every penny XD

The Pie3D Game Creation system was something I spent countless hours having fun with. As janky as it was, it has a very special place in my heart. By the time they discontinued the MS-DOS version, I had learned how to get the engine to do all kinds of stuff that wasn't even listed in the documentation. Due to it's esoteric graphics format, and single 256 color palette per-game limitation, its also where I learned how to down sample graphical assets with minimal quality degradation. I still fire it up on DosBox now and then.

I like how you played a bunch of versions of the games that had them, and included movie-based games

Home alone for the snes may have been bad but it holds a special place in my childhood.

I can think of a couple other Christmas programs (they're not really games) that I had as a kid for the Commodore 64. I was a little kid when I got them as gifts and I really liked them at the time, but if you didn't grow up with them they wouldn't be that exciting for most people. Little kids might still like them, I guess. "Jingle Disk": this is an animated story about a mouse doing stuff on Christmas. (I don't remember the details, but it's not a complicated story or anything.) It also has the ability to print Christmas cards. There is an Apple ][ version of the game on the other side of the disk. I got to watch it once on my school's computer, and remember some things being different, but I don't remember what those differences were. "A Popples Christmas Adventure": A similar type of program to "Jingle Disk", but this one features the Popples, where were a plush toyline from the 80s that I doubt anyone that wasn't alive then is even aware of. They were little creatures that could turn into balls. This one also told a story, and at one point there is a maze, so I guess it technically counts as a game.

Was wondering if someone would make a review of Christmas themed video games! This was awesome! Ironically, I'm just ordered James Pond 2 for the Sega Genesis for Christmas LOL!😂 At least it's not the GBA Version!😉

NES Home Alone 2 wasn't that bad. You just had to know what you where doing and how to get the crazy 1-ups and power ups. In one section of the hotel lobby you could jump up and down on the couch to jump high enough to get some much needed power ups. I beat that game day 1 when I got it for Christmas.

I'm so glad to see Santa Claus Saves the Earth on this list, in a weirdly morbid sense of the word. First saw it from Cadiccarus' old video on it. How that game got a PS1 port is beyond me.

So many of these old games are straight-up money grabs for the production companies and disappointments for the kids that managed to save $40-$60.

Thank you very much for acknowledging Die Hard as a Christmas thing!

Gremlins for the Atari 2600 could be considered a Christmas game since the movie takes place around Christmas time. Also Gremlins Stripe vs. Gizmo. And Elf Bowling.

Good on you for throwing some DOS in there, 16-bit console gamers usually act like that world never existed. ;) Thanks for the GBC gem highlight, don't think that handheld got enough love by most developers. Idk but I just don't think we'll be seeing Konami gambling unit reviews in the future like we did for their video games lol. Some nice SMS highlights too and had me thinking about Sega Lord X's SMS mini speculation videos. Was thinking it might have some potential in bridging the SMS and GG through it's emulation foundation especially in adjustable screen size matters. Always surprised me Brazil didn't make a SMS-2 with GG features like expanded color and the controller Pause button, where maybe M2 could do that with an SMS mini.

I swear Home Alone got more video game adaptations than sequels

The Grinch game looks really amazing as does some of the Batman Returns games. That was a lot of movie games for Home Alone though.

The Die Hard games always impressed me. James Pond, on the other hand, I can't figure out for the life of me

I always tell people Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie and they're usually pretty impressed and think I'm a unique, interesting person.

How the Gunch Stunch Crunchmuns is a classic

At this point I'm just binge watching your videos. So far I love them all 👍

As kids, I think we all wanted to get games for Christmas, not games about Christmas. A slight change to the wording can really change the meaning of a phrase quite a bit.

Loved Home Alone on the Game Gear. Too bad you didn't enjoy it as much. Great video as always, st1ka! Happy holidays!

Great video but....how in the world did you miss Christmas Nights on a Christmas-themed video game video!??? It's the quintessential Christmas game and a Sega Saturn classic. You even used Segata Sanshiro in the intro!

You have to remember James actually likes Castlevania 2, his first AVGN video (when he was Angry Nintendo Nerd). While I don't think he enjoyed Die Hard, it's fair to say AVGN defecates on good games, even ones he likes.

A modern version of that Grinch game would be awesome, Konami.

Never heard about Daze, or played any of the other ones (although I wanted James Pond II)! Merry Xmas St1ka!

I waited until Christmas to watch this. Thank you for the wonderful gift 😊

I really like these video with just a bunch of random games themed for a holiday. Great work man.

There's some great games on this list I'd be honored to have under my Christmas tree.

Batman Returns on SNES is one of my all time favorite Konami beat em ups! And I still have it in my SNES collection.

Fun fact, there was a PS1 version of Santa Clause saves the earth.

The Escapists has a Santa level but I've never finished it yet. Santa also appears in AVGN Adventures and Clayfighter

Batman Returns on the Atari Lynx ruined my christmas, glad to see it mentioned :) It's so bad I think I never beaten level 1 !

that Gameboy Grinch game is semi-infamous at this point for how obviously horny whoever drew the art was for the Grinch. Ignoring that uh, tidbit, merry Christmas st1ka!

Robocod is weird, as all ports from the DS/PS2 version onwards have completely different levels for some reason. They remade the game! :S

Ah man, I think youtube was hiding your posts. Just now saw this. Awesome vid as always! I super hate the home alone games. Happy holidays to you!

Don’t be too hard on 3D Xmas Adventure. I was part of the GCS community back in the day and yes the engine wasn’t the same quality of Doom or Hexen but to be honest for a highschool kid who didn’t have a lot of programming experience this was pretty good for making a simple 3D shooter. The developer Pie In the Sky also worked hard to port the engine to Windows 95 adding the ability to import 3D models and also had released a more advance AI engine towards the end of the life of the product.

Santa Claus Junior honestly looks like a WayFoward game, along the likes of Wendy: Every Witch Way and Shantae. Really impressive animation and use of color, but the one giveaway that it's European is the heavy use of arpeggios in the music. I also agree that the SMS version of Batman Returns is really good. I don't know if I'd call it better than the SNES version, but it's certainly underrated. Kinda surprised the Sega CD version wasn't covered, it was the Mega Drive game but with much improved music and cool driving levels.

Plot twist: the grinch made all these to make us start hating Christmas

so basically the virgin Christmas games vs the chad horror halloween games.

Thank you for including Die Hard XD

How is this channel not way WAY bigger? I don't remember how long I've been subbed but I hardly ever get recommendations, I guess. I'll click that bell, but seriously YT, WTF?

I only remember playing Home Alone 2 on the Gameboy. I couldn't get past the first level with the stupid elevator!!

My sister had "Home Alone" for the Gameboy when we were kids. It wasn't the worst game in the world. I enjoyed playing it from time to time, even though I realized it had major flaws. lol

How many times did Audi try to convince you about Bubsy being a Christmas game?

I used to know a guy who played the grinch on ps1 like that was his spyro. Dude loved that crap game

Over time I have figured out you can tell how old a player is in a shooter game by how frequently they jump.

the nes home alone traps are not infinite, they usually have 4 times you can use each one

To this day I still don't get why Friday the 13th gets such a bad rap...it was badass back in the day

Another fantastic video!! So many games I never knew about!! Plus, the perfect Christmas gift of a Famicom Disk system card from St1ka!!😄👍👍👍

Haven’t watched this guy before, I love his accent

Where's Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare 94 and 95, and Jazz 2 Holiday Hare 98/Christmas Chronicles?

Maybe in Santa Saves The Earth the fairy who is angry at Santa is the Tooth Fairy, and she's jealous of him because he gets milk and cookies for his efforts while she gets a sack full of pieces of children's heads. Which makes her sound like a psychopath when describing teeth that way.😱🧚‍♀

Paratrooper? I seem to remember somebody put that on a computer when I was in 4th grade.

Well i suspose waking up and finding that your Christmas present is kfc.

NES Die Hard is one of my favourite games on the system actually

Not bad. The Grinch game does not really use much in the way of anything from the film's license though, all the visuals are based on the book. Probably for the best, but still a bit of a miss.

When I got my original Gameboy for Christmas it came with Mario and Yoshi.. the puzzle game. Home alone looks like a AAA game compared to how bad Mario and Yoshi game was.

Wow home alone for DOS, I'll have to try it 🙂

Hui that santa clause jr. game looks pretty nice😮😮

love this channel. one of my new favorites. merry christmas!

Between Die Hard and Friday the 13th, AVGN kinda ruined game discourse by just shitting on everything huh?

I'm really thinking about getting that grinch game

If you do a Halloween special next year, please look into Muppet Monster Adventure. It's a very cool Halloween themed 3D platformer that, while a blatant Spyro clone, is really well made.

I don't think you gave the NES Home Alone a fair shake. It's far more challenging than you think, and your method for laying traps in a loop wouldn't work because: A: All Traps can only be used 3 times, with one exception (the chandeliers) 2: Each trap has a different "knock-out" time, with the Chandeliers being the longest, which can actually be used 4 times in total if you are successful in dropping them on the Wet bandits as they pass beneath you on the second floor (requires timing/luck because bandit search at random unless they see you.) D: Surviving the whole 20 minute is easier said than done and you didn't even mention the hiding spots, with each also having their own time limits and can only be passed over twice by an enemy when hidden. Keeping track of how many traps you've used and how long you have hidden in the hiding spots makes the game a unique experience that is unlike any other NES game, and is actually developed by Bethesda, makers of stuff like Skyrim, so for NES game 'gems', I honestly don't think you have the stones to tackle the game proper. I've only ever beaten it once with save states, I doubt many could beat it without cheating.

You miss the Grinch on the Dreamcast

Great topic, well-done video!

I am one of the very few people who actually really like the NES Home Alone game.

My dad got me avatar on the 360 for cristmass. I enjoyed it.

yeah avgn's caused lots of bad rep for good games. but it's for fun so idk why people take its critiques so seriously. cool vid btw thanks

Thanks for all the great content throughout the year!

You are correct that Batman Returns (Sega Genesis version) was difficult to get use to. However, if that and just the first level is all you have to rate it on... I mean, come on, make like an AVGN and play the thing through first, THEN hate on it. You eventually get an instinct for it, though, and it becomes more entertaining. It's still not the best game, but it's also not the worst either.

Santa Claus Saves The Earth is also very generic you could swap santa with anything and would not change much

I recommend Cthulhu Saves Christmas, now thats a good christmas game